The AfD’s Rise Isn’t Just About East Germany The AfD’s Rise Isn’t Just About East Germany
The Alternative für Deutschland has a stable national poll lead, including in the former West Germany. Its rise owes to much more than Eastern grievances.
Sep 23, 2026 / David Broder
Is There Any Good News Left? Is There Any Good News Left?
Despite what our algorithms suggest, there’s still news worth celebrating.
Sep 23, 2026 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
CEOs Are Losing Control of AI CEOs Are Losing Control of AI
With no slowdown from Trump’s administration.
Sep 22, 2026 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
How to Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu How to Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu
Make no mistake: The United States can seize Netanyahu for crimes under US law and prosecute him in US courts when he is in New York City this week.
Sep 22, 2026 / Jake Romm for the Hind Rajab Foundation
The GOP’s Incredible Shrinking Senate Map The GOP’s Incredible Shrinking Senate Map
Trump has so badly damaged the Republican Party’s brand that strategists are contemplating bitter fights—and losses—in races they’d been banking on as sure things.
Sep 22, 2026 / David Faris
Trump Wants to Keep Journalists Out of the White House. He Should Get His Wish. Trump Wants to Keep Journalists Out of the White House. He Should Get His Wish.
The president has banned MS NOW, CNN, and Politico from attending press briefings. The rest of the media should respond with a boycott.
Sep 22, 2026 / Chris Lehmann
Gina Hinojosa: “We Flip Texas, and It’s Over” Gina Hinojosa: “We Flip Texas, and It’s Over”
Talking to Texas gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa about what redistricting could mean and how a new generation of Democrats is speaking more directly to voters.
Sep 22, 2026 / StudentNation / Lajward Zahra
Pinochet: The Verdict of History in the Letelier-Moffitt Case Pinochet: The Verdict of History in the Letelier-Moffitt Case
An act of international terrorism on the streets of Washington, DC, still reverberates 50 years later.
Sep 22, 2026 / Peter Kornbluh
As Morale Sags, More Military Service Members Are Having a Crisis of Conscience As Morale Sags, More Military Service Members Are Having a Crisis of Conscience
According to multiple GI rights organizations, service members are inquiring in unprecedented numbers about seeking conscientious objector status.
Sep 22, 2026 / Sophie Mann-Shafir
Bernie Sanders: “People Are Sick and Tired of the Status Quo. People Want Change.” Bernie Sanders: “People Are Sick and Tired of the Status Quo. People Want Change.”
Exclusive: Read the text of a major foreign-policy address delivered by the independent senator at Riverside Church.
Sep 21, 2026 / Sen. Bernie Sanders